Memorials of Human Superstition: being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the SorbonneLolme, Jean Louis de
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Memorials of Human Superstition: being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne
Lolme, Jean Louis de
Boileau, Jacques, 1635-1716. Historia flagellantium; Flagellants
That Disciplinants in Spain, flagellate themselves with the extreme
gracefulness we mention, is a fact about which no doubt is to be
entertained: nay, there are Masters in most Towns, whose express
business is to teach the time, mood, comely movements and arts,
above described, and in short to shew how to perform disciplines
with elegance.----Fielding, in one of his Works, has inserted an
advertisement of the celebrated Broughton which had just made its
appearance, by which the latter offered his services to the public,
to instruct them in the art of boxing, and all the mysteries of it:
that Author thought posterity would be extremely glad to meet with
that interesting and incontrovertible monument of the manners of the
times in which he wrote: an advertisement from one of the Spanish
flagellating Masters we speak of, would, in like manner, be extremely
proper to be produced in this place; and if I do not insert here the
copy of any such advertisement, the reader may be persuaded that it
is solely because I have none in my possession.
When the Gentlemen who propose to discipline themselves in honour
of their Mistresses, are of considerable rank, the ceremony is then
performed with great state and magnificence. Madame D’Aunoy relates
that the day the Duke of Vejar disciplined himself, an hundred white
wax-candles were carried before the procession: the Duke was preceded
by sixty of his friends (vassals perhaps, or dependents) and followed
by an hundred, all attended by their own pages and footmen; and
besides them there were no doubt abundance of Priests and crucifixes.
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